Well-being as a tool to improve productivity in existing office space

Through analyzing Googleplex office building, Amazonspheres office building and studying the WELL building rating system we conducted a design criteria to apply on existing office buildings to enhance productivity and well-being of occupants. With various sources agreeing on the top influencing design factors on productivity being thermal comfort, air quality (natural ventilation), and natural light.

We apply the conducted design criteria of the case study office from "Cairo Petroleum Building" office building in Alexandria/Egypt that suffered from exisive heatgain and uncomfortable glare to the south and east offices caused by the building full curtain wall facades and low % of operable windows. we simulate the base case and post implementation offices with Design builder computer software. first we validate the base case variables through "the Correlation Coefficient" formula which scores R2=0.993.